Punch my kid in the face, will ya?

From the Charlotte Sun in Florida
November 9, 2004

Sometimes the only recourse to a punch in the face is a baseball bat to the head.


Party fight leads to escalating violence

In retaliation to a fight involving his son, an Englewood, Fla., man, armed with a baseball bat, and his son stormed into a house party Sunday and allegedly tangled with six people, a Charlotte County Sheriff's Office report states.

The man's 17-year-old son was beaten up at the party by two unknown suspects around 2 a.m., the report states.

According to the report, the victim said he was at a Sunnybrook home when he was punched in the face by a man who was drunk.

The victim hit the man back.

The cousin of the man then retaliated and struck the 17-year-old in the face.

The victim ran home with a bloody lip, bloody nose and red marks on his face, the report states.

The father then grabbed a baseball bat and marched back to the party with his son.

According to the report, a fight broke out between the father and son team and five or six others.

One man hit the father with a metal pole, causing his left arm to swell and bruise.

The father struck another in the head with the bat.

He received 10 staples at Englewood Community Hospital.

No charges were filed.